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Sorry to hear about your brother. In hind site I'm sure he would have contacted Amazon earlier.

While we're throwing out anecdotal evidence I'll throw out mine. I've had nothing but good experiences with Amazon. I originally boycotted them for many years (maybe 3 - 5) because of their frivolous patents. Then I decided to give them a shot.

I do alot of online shopping and I now order hundreds if not thousands of dollars of merchandise from them. I have not had a single problem. In fact, I'm an Amazon Prime member and I love how I can get my computer books the next day from them for only $3.99 (plus the yearly $79.99 membership fee). The website is well layed out, the website learns what I like, I love the wishlists, and the reviews. When I go to shop I start at Amazon, and then branch out.

Also, if you're looking for a cheaper way to buy CDs try joining BMGmusic.com. Once you count the free CDs they give you you pay somewhere between $5 - $7 per CD with shipping. Not a bad deal at all, and if you sign up a friend (*cough* your alter ego *cough*) you get four free CDs and only pay a few bucks shipping. Then you can make your high quality rips, and not be encumbered by stupid DRM.

JOhn

CD's do cost $6-10 apiece. Here's two places you may have heard of

http://www.amazon.com/
(via their club or used)

http://www.bmgmusic.com/

You're welcome!

Not necessarily, if you are a member of the BMG or Columbia House music clubs you could amass quite a collection of music CD's for $500. At least I know I could have back in the day when I was on thier lists...

If they are afraid of the online download distribution system (and they should be), why not pioneer it?

I used to be a member of BMG but left after i discovered allofmp3.

He spelled BMG wrong.

now if amazon patented no-click shopping (we send you stuff because your profile says you like the over-stock stuff we have), then they might have a case.

Hasn't BMG music club already patented that?

I don't think your local store has hundreds of thousands CDs. Usually, they stock only novelties and popular artists.

Of course, you can back order through them but then you will have to go twice to the store. Why not buy online then.

I do buy online: I purchase CDs at Amazon and BMG. I get physical media, the selection is HUGE, and if I time my purchases right, I can get discounted music and sometimes free shipping. I haven't set foot in a brick-and-mortar music store in ages. Once I have the CDs in hand, they get ripped to OGG format for listening while I'm working at my computer, or burning to mix albums. The physical CDs sit on a shelf and get rotated into the collection in my car.

I would MUCH prefer to have a physical copy of the music I purchased, without needing to purchase a "license" to create one, and being locked into proprietary software.

Please don't act so confident when you're really so misinformed. Shipping charges from BMG are $2.79 per CD, not $4.90 or whatever you are making up. Secondly, I agree with the grandparent poster that the price comes out to under $7 per CD easily, with shipping, if you take advantage of a good sale. The site helpfully shows you the per CD total for your order on the left side, which I sometimes wish Amazon et al did as well. If you have found it very hard to locate more than 5 CDs that are good, then you probably either don't know much about music or haven't checked out their catalog in quite some time. I buy few mainstream albums, and yet I still shop there all the time because it saves me a ton of money.

BMG is now selling CDs for $6.99 apiece with free shipping. All of you that have been saying that you'll stop pirating music when it's reasonably priced, here's your chance to live up to those words.

Of course, now I expect the answer will be that $6.99 is still a rip off for a piece of plastic that costs pennies to manufacture.

/Apostrophe Nazi

No, Junk Mail. The Music Industry has some experience with that, too. Getting a link to this beauty (Warning - OUCH!!!) in your e-mail inbox would be considered SPAM.

Soko

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